A rare bottle of 55-year-old single malt has set a new world record when it was sold at auction for £46,000.
The bottle of Glenfiddich Janet Sheed Roberts Reserve fetched £46,850 at Bonhams in Edinburgh.
This topped the previous auction record of just under £30,000 for a bottle of single malt whisky.
It is the first of 11 bottles of the 1955 tipple to be released to the public to honour Janet Sheed Roberts, the granddaughter of William Grant who founded the Glenfiddich distillery.
Ms Roberts, who celebrated her 110th birthday in August, is the oldest living person in Scotland, distillery bosses said.
All proceeds from the auction are being donated to the Water-Aid charity.
Bonhams said the Glenfiddich set a new record for a bottle of single malt sold at auction. Last year a 64-year-old Macallan malt and Lalique crystal decanter fetched £298,000 at an auction in New York, prompting distillers to say they had smashed the world record for the most expensive whisky ever sold.
Bonhams said they too have broken a world record with their £46,850 auction total, which includes the buyer’s premium, explaining that the Glenfiddich sets a new global record for a single malt whisky in a standard bottle.
Bonhams’ head of whisky, Martin Green, said: “This is the most valuable whisky we have ever auctioned here in Edinburgh and we’re thrilled to have helped raise such a significant amount of money for WaterAid.”
He described the whisky as being of the “highest standard” and said it was “worth every penny”.
He added: “It’s certainly a collector’s item, which should only grow in value over the years.
“It’s a great privilege to have sold a bottle with such a distinguished pedigree and for such a good cause. We are all delighted.”
Bonhams said the whisky sale attracted interest from around the world. In total it raised £215,000.
Glenfiddich is made in Dufftown, Banffshire.
The Glenfiddich single malt whisky first ran from the stills on Christmas Day, 1887.
Only a single source of water is used: The Robbie Dhu spring.
The Glenfiddich Janet Sheed Roberts Reserve is one of the rarest and most precious whiskies.
W. Grant & Sons was one of the first distilleries to package its bottles in tubes and gift tins.